Honesty Quotes
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. -- Samuel Butler
Butler, Samuel
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. -- Samuel Butler
Butler, Samuel
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. -- Samuel Butler
Byron, Lord
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade. -- George Gordon, Lord Byron
de Montaigne, Michel
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie. -- Michel De Montaigne
Fuller, Thomas
All truth is not to be told at all times. -- Thomas Fuller, M. D.
Homer
Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another. -- Homer
Johnson, Samuel
I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth. -- Samuel Johnson
Martial
An honest man is always a child.
Pope, Alexander
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. -- Alexander Pope
Shakespeare, William
To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. -- William Shakespeare
Socrates
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Sophocles
A lie never lives to be old. -- Sophocles
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
Twain, Mark
When in doubt tell the truth.